Motivational Quotes

Service

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Service

Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

Ward, William A.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Auchincloss, Louis

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.

Steele, Sir Richard

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

Bible

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Gropius, Walter

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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Schweitzer, Albert

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In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Dix, Dorothy

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Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

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If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

Warren, Frank F.

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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Woods, Tiger

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Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

Clark, J. Reuben

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The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Holtz, Lou

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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca

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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Selye, Hans

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If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

Antoinette, Marie

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Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.

Ramdas, Swami

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Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Ford, Henry

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The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

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He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

Aue, Hartmann Von

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Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Eliot, Charles W.

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.

Carver, George Washington

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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Adams, Douglas

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I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

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No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Coolidge, Calvin

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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Cook, James R.

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You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.